Articles
Articles on AI models and working with photos
Breakdowns, checklists and practice: how to get a faithful likeness, what drives generation quality, and where the models hit their limits.
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AI Photoshoot or a Studio Session: Choosing by the Task at Hand
A comparison across seven parameters — from authenticity and turnaround to control over the frame. Where generation wins, where it loses, and where the two are not competitors at all.
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Animating Old and Archive Photographs: What the Technology Can and Cannot Do
Film grain, damage, low contrast — how each affects the animation. Preparing an archive image, and the limits of what the result can honestly claim.
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Why AI Struggles With Hands, Text and Symmetry
Three classic weak spots of generation share one cause. What model developers do about it, and what you can do yourself when composing a frame.
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Reference Photos: How Someone Else's Frame Sets the Scene for Your Portrait
How roles divide between the reference and the portrait: what comes from the scene, what from your face, where the boundary runs, and which references work best.
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How to Describe Light in a Prompt: The Parameter Everyone Forgets
Light decides mood, volume and credibility. Working setups, the order of description, and why the single word "soft" is not enough.
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Video From Photos for Advertising: What to Settle Before Production
Commercial use adds requirements personal projects do not have: rights, disclosure, accuracy about the product, and predictability.
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AI Photos in a Dating Profile: An Honest Look at the Boundaries
Where a generated frame is acceptable, where it hurts, and why here a technical question quickly becomes a question of expectations.
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AI Headshots for a Business Profile: Where They Belong and Where They Don't
A breakdown by platform type and by degree of alteration. The criterion separating acceptable use from problematic use.
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Stylised or Photorealistic Avatar: How to Choose
The choice follows platform and function rather than taste. Where each option works, and what is lost either way.
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Rights to Generated Images: What Matters to Understand
Three separate questions usually conflated: rights to the source, rights to the result, and the rights of people depicted in it.
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